Paul
Goble
Staunton, June 8 – Vladimir Putin
will get one way or another the immediate result from the July 1 constitutional
amendment referendum that he wants; but in so do, he will be placing an
unexploded mine under both him and his system that will go off after he leaves,
the Forbidden Opinion telegram channel says.
“Hypothetically,” it continues, “now
any state turnover – and it is unimportant whether it is a palace coup at the top
or a broader one – will delegitimize Putin’s presidency (including his current
one) by declaring his actions anti-constitutional (and they really are) and
therefore his presidency illegal” (t.me/TheForbiddenOpinion/5000).
But even more than that, the
telegram channel says, “any new power as a result of the political tasks
standing before it may now declare the existing Constitution inoperable, including
the Constitutional Court which supposedly cannot be disbanded by declaring it a
co-conspirator in a state crime and therefore forcibly dissolve it.”
“In order to ‘remove’ Putin from
history, it will be sufficient to view his anti-constitutional coup as a crime –
and that is what it really is,” the Forbidden Opinion says; and consequently,
by seeking these changes, “Putin has himself in fact laid under the era of his
presidency a mine which deprives him of his legal standing.”
But even more, the telegram channel
says, what Putin is doing has put all other parts of his state machine at risk
of the same kind of zeroing out and left them “’hanging in the air’” with the
very real possibility that they too will lose all legitimacy when Putin leaves
office one way or another.
Putin, who prides himself on being a chess player capable
of planning many moves ahead, by pursuing rule for life has created a situation
which puts his desires on a collision course with the obvious legal steps that
his successors will take. That is an
unexploded mine that will go off, annulling not just Putin but his system
historically.
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